I recall my prior fuck benzo's comment

[Synack]

I can sleep!! 4mg of xanax and I'm good for about 4-5....don't know how I'm going to explain them on my drug test though...meh, I'lll hit an urget care and get some RX written for a "flight"

but something else thats weird, besides the two hours it takes for them to knock me out -- once I'm asleep, my body realies I am, then everything becomes lucid, I wake up with full paralysis and even have hypnogogic hallucinations as I try to wake up..Lately, there has been a bit of cataplexy as well... but my doc says she can't give me ANYTHING (hell, I asked for modafinil a non-amp awake agent) without days apon days of sleep studies....fuck utah.

have a nice night/day

[TokinDerrick]

if you can't sleep, why would you ask for an energy-type pill?

[Synack]

because I'm falling asleep at work which has cost me my job...

well, it's not exactly falling asleep, it's right out blacking out into sleep and I can't even fight it -- it just hits me, I get tiredREAL quick and then I'm out.

[TokinDerrick]

sounds like you need a nighttime job then. you're sleep pattern is just fucked.

but if you're narcoleptic, which I don't think you are. I don't think narcolepcy is being tired, and then falling asleep. but if you are narcoleptic, I'd find a new doctor. one who will giveyou something for it.

[LorTabitha]

I had this happen to me the first week of an important new job. They did the sleep studies on me and found that I wasn't getting any REM sleep because of pain. Every time I would move in my sleep it would wake me up completely. My love affair with opiates began then.....

[CIIORNOTHING]

because I'm falling asleep at work which has cost me my job...

well, it's not exactly falling asleep, it's right out blacking out into sleep and I can't even fight it -- it just hits me, I get tiredREAL quick and then I'm out.

I might be confused but Synack arent you the one that said you were banging a bunch of MS and Dillie everyday? Youre just nodding dude ;)

Nevermind, that was a different SYN......

[Synack]

different Syn... i stick to oxymorphone and oxycodone...currently oxycodone... and I even had the issues when I was growing up..

[gauchoamigo]

sounds like you need a nighttime job then. you're sleep pattern is just fucked.

but if you're narcoleptic, which I don't think you are. I don't think narcolepcy is being tired, and then falling asleep. but if you are narcoleptic, I'd find a new doctor. one who will giveyou something for it.

NAH! Narcolepsy is the condition whreby one may fall asleep in the strangest of circumstances, none of them predictable. Like while waiting for a soft drink machine to vend its can... while standing waiting at a bus stop in a howling gale with horizontal rain; like letting your head drop into your breakfast after 8 cups of strong coffee already; like falling to sleep on a subway train, hanging onto a strap, when you have had 30mg Addreall and 10mg dexedrine within the previous hour or two; like just falling asleep whenever wherever whatever the situation; no limits. That's narcolepsy. Kind of different from my insomnia, which requires a rotating prescription of Rohypnol (flunitrazepam), Dormicum (midazolam), temazepam (we only get generic tablets here) and Stilnoct (zolpidem). Keeping two nights a week med-free vastly reduces, along with the rotation, the eventuality of tolerance build-up. Nitrazepam can be useful as well as lormetazepam (Noctamid 1 or 2mg). Non-Roche flunitraz can be prescribed in 2mg strength, their Rohypnol brand is now oly available in 1mg. Midazolam I find requires 15mg, the 7,5mg version not being strong enough. And there are two decent Indian brands of nitrazepam coming in at 10mg, in the West it's only made in 5mg.

Actually, the BNF indication for Narcolepsy threw me just the one drug - Dexedrine, which is written up wit a strong warning that its prescription is frowned upon except in the most intractable of cases. I was extremely surprised not to find Adderall inthere. But not really. Nothing surprises me now about what used to be the best Health service in the world. Now its only claim to THAT fame is that all patients are entitled to the same treatment free at any time. The actual treatment has deteriorated so much from the days my father was a doctor it's unrecognisable. And the amount of meds available for a quack to prescribe is going down and down and down... there will soon be little but one of the basics for ch condition. And no longer can brand name drugs except those still under patent be prescribed. Money has taken over from the prescriber's personal wishes and judgement. One of the main reasons my olddad took early retirement. It is a very odd disease indeed. I have been accused of suffering it because I can sleep for 20 hours a day no problem. But it ain't narcolepsy. Just I'm fucked. Not many people actually suffer from it (I had the figure in my little med booklet I write things in but can't find it). Certainly there are many more insomniacs! Then again there are many more people take meds which make you sleep or sleepy. Look at all the people on the -lams and -pams. Diazepam and alprazolam being most common. Clonazepam is a good option if you require a very strong anti-anxiety/panic tablet but little sedation. But here in my country, it can only be prescribed for seizures and Status Epilepepticus. Bummer, because it is a fantastic anxiolytic which does indeed produce a lot less sedation than alprazolam, diazepam and bromazepam, the other main benzos for anxiety and panic attacks.
Hell, what am i ON tonight? I have been rambling on and on and lost the plot a bit. All I can say is that i hope what I have written is understandable inthe context of the thread I have written it in...
Gauchoamigo
Oh yes, it was a fair whack of phenazepam because I had a full-blown panic attack this lunchtime. A couple of bromaz Lexilium) for the immediates, and God knows what amount of phenazepam to keep me calm through the day. Problem: like so many benzos, phenaz interferes with short term memory.
Love and Peas,
errrrm... uuhhh... Gaucho, that's the name!
Off to bed now. No night light and I am scared of the dark. Calendar... yes, sleep aid night, flunitrazpam 2mg. So that'll be me sleeping in 10 mins then. Sweet ones, my friends.

[20Dollarholla]

I had this happen to me the first week of an important new job. They did the sleep studies on me and found that I wasn't getting any REM sleep because of pain. Every time I would move in my sleep it would wake me up completely. My love affair with opiates began then.....

Most opiate addicts do not get any REM sleep at all. It seems like your getting a good nights sleep when your all oped out, but in actuality your really not. Opiates prevent your body from entering the REM stage of sleep. Also when you stop taking opiates it takes some time before your body adjusts to not having them and that also interferes with sleep, even if your not opiate dependent and enter WD, not having opiates fuck with your sleep.

Its a damned if you do, damned if you dont, type of situation. I have recently been tested for sleep something or another. I had to go to sleep for 8 hours with all these wires and shit hooked up to me, in the 8 hours i was asleep, I only got 23minutes of REM sleep. The Doctor said that my dependency to methadone is what causes the lack of REM sleep and there wasnt anything that could be done about it, as I am already scripted Xanax. He basically told me that I would never get a good nights sleep while I until I detoxed totally of off the 'done' and didnt go back to using dope.

[lunchbox]

NAH! Narcolepsy is the condition whreby one may fall asleep in the strangest of circumstances, none of them predictable. Like while waiting for a soft drink machine to vend its can... while standing waiting at a bus stop in a howling gale with horizontal rain; like letting your head drop into your breakfast after 8 cups of strong coffee already; like falling to sleep on a subway train, hanging onto a strap, when you have had 30mg Addreall and 10mg dexedrine within the previous hour or two; like just falling asleep whenever wherever whatever the situation; no limits. That's narcolepsy. Kind of different from my insomnia, which requires a rotating prescription of Rohypnol (flunitrazepam), Dormicum (midazolam), temazepam (we only get generic tablets here) and Stilnoct (zolpidem). Keeping two nights a week med-free vastly reduces, along with the rotation, the eventuality of tolerance build-up. Nitrazepam can be useful as well as lormetazepam (Noctamid 1 or 2mg). Non-Roche flunitraz can be prescribed in 2mg strength, their Rohypnol brand is now oly available in 1mg. Midazolam I find requires 15mg, the 7,5mg version not being strong enough. And there are two decent Indian brands of nitrazepam coming in at 10mg, in the West it's only made in 5mg.

Actually, the BNF indication for Narcolepsy threw me just the one drug - Dexedrine, which is written up wit a strong warning that its prescription is frowned upon except in the most intractable of cases. I was extremely surprised not to find Adderall inthere. But not really. Nothing surprises me now about what used to be the best Health service in the world. Now its only claim to THAT fame is that all patients are entitled to the same treatment free at any time. The actual treatment has deteriorated so much from the days my father was a doctor it's unrecognisable. And the amount of meds available for a quack to prescribe is going down and down and down... there will soon be little but one of the basics for ch condition. And no longer can brand name drugs except those still under patent be prescribed. Money has taken over from the prescriber's personal wishes and judgement. One of the main reasons my olddad took early retirement. It is a very odd disease indeed. I have been accused of suffering it because I can sleep for 20 hours a day no problem. But it ain't narcolepsy. Just I'm fucked. Not many people actually suffer from it (I had the figure in my little med booklet I write things in but can't find it). Certainly there are many more insomniacs! Then again there are many more people take meds which make you sleep or sleepy. Look at all the people on the -lams and -pams. Diazepam and alprazolam being most common. Clonazepam is a good option if you require a very strong anti-anxiety/panic tablet but little sedation. But here in my country, it can only be prescribed for seizures and Status Epilepepticus. Bummer, because it is a fantastic anxiolytic which does indeed produce a lot less sedation than alprazolam, diazepam and bromazepam, the other main benzos for anxiety and panic attacks.
Hell, what am i ON tonight? I have been rambling on and on and lost the plot a bit. All I can say is that i hope what I have written is understandable inthe context of the thread I have written it in...
Gauchoamigo
Oh yes, it was a fair whack of phenazepam because I had a full-blown panic attack this lunchtime. A couple of bromaz Lexilium) for the immediates, and God knows what amount of phenazepam to keep me calm through the day. Problem: like so many benzos, phenaz interferes with short term memory.
Love and Peas,
errrrm... uuhhh... Gaucho, that's the name!
Off to bed now. No night light and I am scared of the dark. Calendar... yes, sleep aid night, flunitrazpam 2mg. So that'll be me sleeping in 10 mins then. Sweet ones, my friends.

wtf

[underide]

wtf

narcolepsy, it's a tricky thing u see
(i think i'd like some of that)

[mikells43]

that girl on duce biggelo had narc. lol.

[drugsaregood]

Damn man. Glad you've won atleast half the battle (getting some sleep!)..I've had acouple episodes of sleep paralysis. It's crazy! The hallucinations and lucid dreaming, it's like I wasn't even sleeping and whoaaaa...

I was worried about it because it was happening frequently, I kind of found it enjoyable as it wasn't a common thing though...

Turns out it was my ritalin causing it. It hasn't occured in like a month or so man...

I really hope you get everything situated, I know first hand how sleeping problems can really wreak havoc on your quality of life...

[Levity]

Cocaine might keep you awake at work.
And, better yet, you'll become closer to your co-workers and become more productive!

Think of the company profits man!